We're Home!

Wow! This has been quite the week. We went into the hospital on Sunday night to start the induction process and at 8:15 on Monday evening Katie joined us via C-Section. It was not necessarily what we had planned, but the end result was the same. Our beautiful little girl made it into the world safely. Unfortunately Daddy D and I neither one got to hear Katie's very first cry. When they took me in for the C-Section the medicine did not work properly and the ended up having to put me under completely and because of that D could not be in the room for the birth. It was medically necessary though and according to the nurse she came out "angry". That makes me a little sad that D and I won't have that memory, but we have had plenty of cries since.

It has been the greatest joy to get to have her here with us even with the 3 am feedings and diaper changes at all hours of the day and night. She is quite pleasant most of the time and fusses very little. She loves to be snuggled with and has the prefect little spot of the top of her head for kisses. She is a good eater and is already up to 2 ounces per feeding. Which are today about 3 to 4 hours apart rather than the 1 to 2 hours apart that they were yesterday.

D and I tag teamed the feeding and diaper changes last night and were both able to get a pretty good amount of sleep. Hopefully it will get even smoother over the next several days and we won't even remember the first few nights where neither one of us slept at all.

D is doing most everything right now during the day so he can spend as much time with her as possible before having to go back to work next week. He is, of course, the best daddy a little girl could ever want and is very attentive and loving. Several times I have walked into the room and they are talking or snuggling. It is the cutest thing. I know it will be really hard for him to go back to work, but I will make sure he gets to spend his evenings with her having fun and bonding. They are really cute together.

We are having lots of fun watching Katie sleep and watching all of the cute and funny faces she makes as she dreams. She smiles alot and shakes her hands in the air when she gets mad. She's just perfect in every way and I am not just saying that because I am her mom. Everyone says it. :)

She weighed 7lb 13oz and 20.5 inches at birth and when we left the hospital on Wednesday evening she weighed 7lb 6oz. We went for our first check up yesterday and we were back up to 7lb 8.5oz so we are getting back to our birth weight pretty quickly which is a really good sign. The dr would like for her to be back at her birth weight by her two week appointment on the 30th. I really don't think that is going to be a problem after watching her feeding habits. I attached a few photos for everyone to see how adorable she is and will try to update and add more pictures again in a day or two.

Love to all,

Daniel, Kelly, and Baby Katie